"And ______ is just looking for some closure". I HATE that phrase! If you are dealt with a tragedy, there is no closure. You grieve, and learn to live with it and continue on, but the pain will always be there. Closure says something like finishing a book. A dumb and inaccurate phrase.

"And ______ is just looking for some closure". I HATE that phrase! If you are dealt with a tragedy, there is no closure. You grieve, and learn to live with it and continue on, but the pain will always be there. Closure says something like finishing a book. A dumb and inaccurate phrase.

And what about "passing away"? Remember the good old days when people just "died"?

's funny that this debate should arise on a film-music forum. One of those great put-downs on the artform is that 'film music relies too much on cliche.' You have to know the cliches in order to avoid them. So with language. I don't mind at all when someone says 'at the end of the day' etc. if it COMMUNICATES. What I think silly is people who ignore the pertinent content of an argument just BECAUSE someone said, 'at the end of the day' somewhere.

In fact a lot of this is second-hand pseud that people who wish to APPEAR sophisticated use to show they're 'original'. Originality is essential in the arts but not always in everyday speech. Oscar Wilde at the breakfast table would be terribly dull after a while.

Now a phrase I really dislike is that old Americanism, 'We have to talk'. When someone, especially a woman, says 'We have to talk', dive for the nearest foxhole, lock your shield over your head, and inject vaccines immediately, because it's NEVER a pleasant surprise.